PGA To Honor David Heyman with 2016 David O. Selznick Achievement Award

LOS ANGELES (November 12, 2015)– The Producers Guild of
America (PGA) announced today that celebrated producer David Heyman will be
honored with the 2016 David O. Selznick Achievement Award, recognizing the
producer’s outstanding body of work in motion pictures. The award will be presented to Heyman at the Annual
Producers Guild Awards ceremony on Saturday, January 23, 2016 at the Hyatt
Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles.

Heyman
has received critical and popular acclaim worldwide for his innovative and
imaginative work on films including GRAVITY, winner of the Guild’s Daryl F.
Zanuck Award, the wildly successful children’s film PADDINGTON, the moving
drama THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS and the beloved HARRY POTTER
franchise. Despite its conclusion in
2011, HARRY POTTER continues to rank among the highest grossing film franchises
of all time.

Producers Guild
Awards Co-Chairs Michael DeLuca (SOCIAL NETWORK, CAPTAIN PHILLIPS) and Jennifer
Todd (ALICE IN WONDERLAND, CELESTE AND JESSE FOREVER) stated, "With HARRY
POTTER, David Heyman set the standard for contemporary franchise filmmaking,
demonstrating an unerring ability to translate a cherished literary universe to
the screen, with all of its depth, humor and heart intact. He has embraced innovation, taking the
technical production challenges of GRAVITY as a mandate to imagine and execute
wholly new ways of shooting film. His
work has consistently elevated our profession and our industry; in his hands,
the movie screen offers the same satisfactions as the literature that often
inspires his stories. We couldn’t
imagine a more fitting recipient for the Selznick Award than David.”

"I am
honored to receive this award, named after such a giant of the industry, from
my peers at the PGA. And as I look at the list of past recipients I am deeply
humbled to join an illustrious group of filmmakers who have been such an
inspiration to me over the years,” said Heyman.

About
David Heyman

Producer David Heyman is currently filming FANTASTIC
BEASTS and WHERE TO FIND THEM, written by J.K. Rowling and directed by David
Yates, with Eddie Redmayne in the lead role, and in post-production on an
adaptation of the bestselling novel THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS, written and
directed by Derek Cianfrance and starring Michael Fassbender, Rachel Weisz and
Alicia Vikander.

Heyman’s latest productions include the critically
acclaimed blockbuster GRAVITY (2013), directed by Alfonso Cuaron, and starring
Sandra Bullock and George Clooney - the film won seven Academy Awards®, as well
as six BAFTA Awards, the PGA Award for Outstanding Producer of a Feature Film,
and numerous others; the film adaptation of Vera Brittain’s WW1 memoir, TESTAMENT
OF YOUTH (2014), starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington; and PADDINGTON (2014),
the adaptation of Michael Bond’s universally beloved books, written and
directed by Paul King, and starring Nicole Kidman, Hugh Bonneville and Sally
Hawkins - PADDINGTON has become the most successful non-studio children’s film
of all time.

Heyman is best known however for producing all the
film adaptations of J.K Rowling’s hugely successful Harry Potter books, an extraordinary journey which began when he
famously read the first book prior to its publication and spotted its film
potential. He went on to produce eight HARRY
POTTER films (2001-2011), the most successful film franchise in cinema history.

Educated in the UK and the United States (where he
majored in Art History at Harvard), David Heyman moved to Los Angeles in 1986 to
become a creative executive at Warner Bros. In the late 80s he became a Vice
President at United Artists.

About the Producers Guild of
America (PGA)

The Producers Guild of America is the non-profit trade group that
represents, protects and promotes the interests of all members of the producing
team in film, television and new media. The Producers Guild has more than 7,000
members who work together to protect and improve their careers, the industry
and community by providing members with employment opportunities, seeking to
expand health benefits,promoting fair and impartial standards for the
awarding of producing credits, as well as other education and advocacy efforts
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